Cesar Chavez was a guy that fought for rights for farm workers. He and Dolores Huerta founded the United Farm Workers. This union kept a boycott that Chavez started and ended when grape owners finally agreed to increase pay wages to the latin population. He was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist. He died on April 23, 1993 of unspecified natural causes while he was staying at a rental apartment in San Luis, Arizona.Cesar Chavez was a guy that fought for rights for farm workers. He and Dolores Huerta founded the United Farm Workers. This union kept a boycott that Chavez started and ended when grape owners finally agreed to increase pay wages to the latin population. He was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist. He died on April 23, 1993 of unspecified natural causes while he was staying at a rental apartment in San Luis, Arizona.